Badge-holder.



Patented Aug. l5, I899.

J. F. SGHLAGLE.

BADGE HOLDER.

(Application filed Dec. 12, 1898.)

(No Model.)

ldjfzmsseax NITED STATES PATENT A OFFICE.

JOHN E. SOHLAGLE, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

BADGE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,934, dated August 15, 1899.

' Application filed December 12, 1898. Serial No. 698,992. (No model.)

To all whom, it 'may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN F. SOHLAGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Badge-Holders and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pins for attaching crape and sprigs of evergreen to the lapels of coats, and is especially adapted to the use of members of lodges, orders, or societies in funeral processions; and the principal object of myimprovement is to provide a combined holder and pin that is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, in which the fabric and sprig carf be readily adjusted, and that will carry the same in good order and without danger of their becoming detached and lost.

I attain my objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the invention with crape attached and a sprig inserted, and Fig. 3 is a view of the invention with the point end of curved cross-bar shown sprung out of socket and drawn forward to receive the crape.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My device is preferably made of springwire ornamented with nickel-plate, and it consists of two pieces only. The longer piece of wire has one end coiled forward, forming an eye A, the inner circumference of which is slightly larger than the size of the wire. From eye A this wire being extended constitutes the entire four sides B B of the frame and is again brought into connection with eye A by passing through said eye and extends thence vertically downward back of the wire at the bottom of the frame. The end of this vertical extension of wire being pointed forms the pin 0 by which my device is attached to the clothing. The two sides of the frame have bends or depressions D and E. In depression E there is a projection or notch forming a loop or socket H. constitutesa cross-bar pin I, one end of which is coiled backward around the frame at depression D and is preferably soldered thereto to secure greater rigidity. The other end, which is of pin form, extends slightly outside of the in most part of depression E. This crossbar pin is curved forward slightly to permit the easy insertion of the stem back of it andin front of the wire constituting the top and bottom of the frame and to obviate too great pressure against the stem. The free end of cross-bar pin I having been drawn forward slightly by the fingers to the position shown in Fig. 3 and the crape having been run on itthe stem of the evergreen sprig is inserted back of it and in front of the top and bottom of wire frame B B. The free end of the pin is then pressed up or down until it passes the obstruction of depression E, when being pressed back slightly it will spring down or up at the rear of said depression to its natural horizontal position, lodging the point of the pin in its socket H. The stem of the sprig set against the front of top and bottom wire of frame B B is thusheld securely in position by the pressure of crossbar pin I on its front.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A badge-holder consisting of frame B I3 with eye A, pin O side depressions D and E socket H, and curved cross-bar pin 1 having one end attached to frame at depression D and the opposite free end operating in socket H, substantiallyas described and for the purpose specified.

2. A badge-holder having a cross-bar pin rigidly attached to its frame at a depression in one side thereof, said frame having a second depression in its opposite end serving as a socket for the point of the pin, substantially as described. I

3. A badge-holder consisting of frame B B having eye A, side depressions D and E socket H and pin 0, in combination with curved cross-bar pin 1 having one end rigidly attached to frame B B at depression D its opposite free end operating in socket H, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

The other piece of wire 4. A crape and sprig holder consisting of a frame, a pin, an eye forming a base for said pin, bent or depressed sides and a socket, all in a single piece of Wire, and a curved crossbar pin attached at one of said depressed sides and adapted to have its free end spring into said socket, substantially as described.

5. A combined crape and sprig holder, consisting of a Wire frame having opposite bends or depressions in its sides and a cross-bar pin extending between said depressions and rigy tached a on press n, it oppo ite free end operating in a socket on the opposite depression, and an attaching-pin having its base in an eye at the top of the frame, substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

6. A badge-holder consisting of one wire bent to form a frame having incnrved sides and an attaching-pin carried vertically down through a coil at the end of said wire in comeye, and engaging with its point a loop or,

socket formed in'the opposite end of said frame, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

JOHN F. SOHLAGLE; lVitnessesi GEORGE W. HARRING,

EMMA HEoKEn. 

